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The council's full legal name is the "Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Southwark", but it styles itself Southwark Council. [ 8 ] [ 2 ] From 1965 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater London Council .
The postcode area originated in 1857 as the SE district. In 1868 it gained some of the area of the short-lived S district, with the rest going to SW.It was divided into numbered districts in 1917, by giving the district closest to London that hosted the head office the suffix "1" and all others alphabetically based on a locally important parish, chapelry, topological or built environment ...
Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council: Liberal Democrat: Civic Centre, 44 York Street 22.17 sq mi (57.4 km 2) 194,894 15 Southwark: Southwark London Borough Council: Labour: 160 Tooley Street: 11.14 sq mi (28.9 km 2) 311,913
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. [1]
Southwark has a wide variety of housing, including council housing such as the post-Blitz Aylesbury Estate and the Heygate Estate to provide homes to low-income residents. The aforementioned estates have been turned over to local housing associations to demolish and redevelop as mixed-tenure developments. Southwark Council and the Greater ...
Until 2022 Southwark was the location of City Hall, the administrative headquarters of the Greater London Authority and the meeting place of the London Assembly and Mayor of London. Since 2009, Southwark London Borough Council has its main offices at 160 Tooley Street, having moved administrative staff from the Camberwell Town Hall. [40]
The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km 2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early ...